Part 3/8:
Understanding the Package and the Chips Inside
The lecture highlighted the variety of chip packages available, ranging from simple to complex designs. It explained that a chip’s functionality often dictates how it is packaged, detailing various examples, such as RFID chips embedded in clothing tags, or microcontrollers used in home devices.
Photographic evidence demonstrated how a simple flashlight test could reveal the presence of an embedded chip, leading to the decapsulation of the tag for further analysis. The importance of die markings and their role in identifying chips through research was also explained, emphasizing that the era of technology could be gleaned from these identifiers.